News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
Once posted, entries will be retained until they have taken place. If you would like your event included on this page, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
2020
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Every effort has been made to check whether events have been cancelled, postponed and new arrangements made, but you are advised to check directly with event organisers before making any plans.
Events
WG Hart Workshop: postponed until 2021
Critical Legal Conference: postponed until 2021
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLSA 2020 Law and Literature Symposium: NEW ONLINE EVENT
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’, Coventry: postponed – further details in due course
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London: postponed – further details in due course
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance, Gothenburg, Sweden: postponed – further details in due course
2020
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’: postponed – further details in due course
Date: tbc
Venue: Coventry University
This event is organised jointly by the SLSA, the Society for Legal Scholars and the Judicial Appointments Commission. Please see website for details. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been postponed. Further details will be announced in due course.
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples: postponed – further details in due course
Date: tbc
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been postponed. Further information will be announced in due course.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance: postponed – further details in due course
Dates: tbc
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
See website for details.
June
Annual Socio-Legal Lecture: Possession – Colonialism and the foundation of legal authority POSTPONED
Date: 2 June 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford: to be confirmed
Speaker: Professor Desmond Manderson, Australian National University
See website for details of this free event. Booking is essential.
JUSTICE Webinar Series Careers Conversations – Paul Yates
Date: 2 June 2020
Venue: online
See webpage for details.
Annual 'Roger Hood' Lecture: The People Strike Back? Life imprisonment and other ultimate penalties in a constitutional democracy
Date: 4 June 2020
Venue: online
Speaker: Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham
See website for details and registration. This is an Oxford All Souls Criminology Seminar Series event
Provincializing Polanyi: The colonial roots of modern labour markets and labour law – webinar
Date: 8 June 2020
Venue: online
Speaker: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, University of Kent
See website for details and registration. This is an Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series event.
Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Dates: 24–26 June 2020
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Please see flyer for details.
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details.
July
Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference 2020: More or less of law?
Dates: 2–3 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
See website for details.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020
Date: 3 July 2020
Venue: University of Southampton
Please see attachment for details.
SOGICA Final Conference
Dates: 7–8 July 2020
Venue: University of Sussex, Falmer Campus, Brighton
Please see website for details of this event organised by the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum Project.
SLSA 2020 Law and Literature Symposium: NEW ONLINE EVENT
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: online
The SLSA Law and Literature Symposium will take place on Wednesday 15 July 2020. It will be held online (via Teams), and the programme features six original paper presentations on two key themes: Crime and Consequences in Law and Literature; and Making Sense in/of Law and Literature. If you are interested in joining this event, or would like more information about it, please contact the convenors This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Julia Shaw.
Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention, Mona Jamaica
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: University of the West Indes, Mona Law Campus, Jamaica
Seminar Convenors: Dr Ramona Biholar (Faculty of Law) and Dr Dacia Leslie (SALISES)
Please see attachment for call for chapter contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection arising from this event.
August
Law and Digital Society: Re-imagining the futures – annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law
Dates: 24–26 August 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see website for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
Date: 1–4 September 2020
Venue: online
See website for details.
British Crime Historians Symposium
Dates: 2–4 September 2020
Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and website for details.
British Academy-Ashoka University Research Collaboration Symposium 2020: POSTPONED
Dates: 4–5 September 2020 – NEW DATES TBC
Venue: Ashoka University, India
Theme: Justice – in particular questions at the intersections of formal and lived justice
Please see website for details.
The Legal Status of the Irish Language: Past, present and future: call for papers
Date: 5 September 2020
Venue: Trinity College, Dublin
Please see flyer for full details. Call closes: 19 June 2020.
Law and Emotion in Times of Uncertainty
Dates: 5–7 September 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see flyer for details.
University Association for Contemporary European Studies Conference: Health in Europe Panel: CANCELLED
Dates: 6–9 September 2020
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Please see announcement for further details. top
Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience: The role of law
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg, Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers: A European approach: call for papers
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
See announcement for details. Closing date: 20 May 2020.
Inequality within International Tax: call for papers
Dates: 14–15 September 2020
Venue: CBS Law, Copenhagen
See announcement for full details. Closing date: 1 May 2020.
Old Age and Dementia Care: call for papers
Dates: 22–23 September 2020
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 27 April 2020.
Under The European Asylum Rainbow: Conference on queer asylum, Frankfurt
Date: 25 September 2020
Venue: Goethe University, Frankfurt
See website for details.
October
The Contribution of Diversity and Gender to Emerging Technologies: call for papers
Dates: 11–13 October 2020
Venue: Convention Centre, Gulf Hotel, Kingdom of Bahrain
Please see website for details. Closing date: 15 June 2020.
In Conversation with Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM
Date: 14 October 2020
Venue: London (tbc)
See webpage for details.
November
Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2020
Date: 10 November 2020
Venue: Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London
See website for details.
2021
January
SLSA Postgraduate Conference
Dates: January 2021 (dates tbc)
Venue: online
Details to be confirmed in due course.
March
Crime Justice and Social Harms
Dates: 23–24 March 2021
Venue: tbc
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Further details will be announced in due course. This event was POSTPONED from March/April 2020.
April
WG Hart Workshop: New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law – postponed until 2021
Dates: April 2021 (tbc)
Venue: tbc
Please see website for updates.
May
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2021: call for papers
Dates: 27–29 May 2021
Venue: Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2021.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2021
Dates: 2–4 September 2021
Venue: University of Dundee
Please see website for details.